Exactly. Why did they spend so much time focused on such a loner, who should not have been on anybody’s radar? it is obviously they were building a fake history of Oswald to be used for some future operation. It is interesting how such personal information about Oswald surfaced in the media so quickly after being arrested.

“Exactly. Why did they spend so much time focused on such a loner, who should not have been on anybody’s radar? it is obviously they were building a fake history of Oswald to be used for some future operation. It is interesting how such personal information about Oswald surfaced in the media so quickly after being arrested.” — Len Kurtz

An astute observation that should be repeated at every opportunity. I for one hope you will weigh in on the more recent conversations, particularly one that is under a heading “comment of the week”. LS

One has to think they’re holding on to these 50-year-old files for one of two reasons:

1) The information will embarrass the agency and hamper it’s position and prestige in the federal govt, ie. “We were messing with Oswald in a covert op in NO rather than WATCHING him.”

2) The CIA is implicated as either a witting or unwitting participant in the assassination, causing potential social unrest and the dissolution of the CIA and re-evaluation of our entire national security structure

Yes Photon, U.S. intelligence was 50 years ahead of their time as against their Soviet counterparts in intelligence gathering info and techniques, that we still can’t release these files. (We must also have some very old agents on payroll today).

This Black Ops radio presentation makes one of the clearest cases for the charge of obstruction of justice by the CIA I’ve seen. It is now clear that any government body seriously investigating the assassination will, in some form or fashion, meet with direct CIA interference.That alone speaks volumes.

The identification of George Joannides as the CIA’s point of contact with the DRE is one of the major developments in these decades of incremental advancement from darkness to light. Another occurred on November 3rd, 1994 when Jeff Morley and Dr. John M. Newman interviewed a senior desk officer assigned to James Angleton named Jane Roman. During that interview Dr. Newman asked Ms. Roman about the significance of misleading information pertaining to Oswald being relayed from CIA HQS to Mexico City Station six weeks prior to the assassination. Ms. Roman replied,

“Well, to me, it’s indicative of a keen interest in Oswald, held very closely on a need-to-know basis.”

Alan, lets finish connecting the dots……Joannides was funding the DRE (aka Cuban exiles). The two were connected, no question. The CIA gave false information to the Warren Commission implicating/framing Oswald as meeting with Russian agents of Dept. 13. That was the first attempt by the CIA to implicate Oswald…then comes Joannides buddies from the DRE. The DRE who go to Oswald and instigate a public scene for which Oswald is arrested and fined, and the DRE walked free, yes, the instigators walked free. DRE members then manipulate Oswald into the Radio talk show…which keeps him on the public mind. DRE is then the first group to implicate Oswald in a Conspiracy with Castro and Cuba. Most people would call this “Teamwork”….I’m not sure what the CIA would call it, probably “standard procedure”. No, no set up here, nope nothing to hide, just call Joannides “Snow White” and the DRE his 7 “Dwarves”. But this is when the CIA and Joannides really get busy, Tape recordings disappearing, controlling what the WC or HSCA is allowed to see. Joannides was a busy man.

The fact that the CIA put forward George Joannides as a point of contact to the HSCA without revealing his role in 1963 is proof that the CIA lied to and misled official investigations into the assassination.

Why did they do it, and why are they still refusing to release certain files?There is obviously something they don’t want us to know.To use the national security argument after 50 years is stretching crediblity to breaking point. Thankfully, most can see through this and will continue to pursue the truth.

They not only lied and misled. They actively subverted the investigation. In Morley v. CIA, the Agency admitted, under oath, that Joannides was acting in an undercover capacity while serving as liaison to the Committee, i.e., that the Agency ran an operation aimed at subverting the Committee. I am personally of the opinion that this operation was only one of many mounted by the Agency against the Committee.

On the Tom Hanks-produced two-hour program on JFK tonight on CNN:A stunning bit of film editing of Malcolm Kilduff’s announcement of Kennedy’s death omits the footage where Kilduff says he has just talked to Drs. Berkeley and Perry and that they told him the president died of a gunshot to the brain, at which point he puts his right index finger to his own right temple at the hairline to show where that bullet hit, according to the doctors. A shot from the front–how inconvenient to this film’s producers!

Best to Ignore anything coming from MSM on 50th annivsary of JFK’S assassination.It’s all going to one long endorsment of Oswald did It.And eather ignore or attack anything else.

Tom Hanks has shown he Is white and black hat view of history.People forget he did film making a hero out of texas congressman leading to funding of groups Ina fghanstain which direct lead to Al queda.

I am disappointed In any so called liberal who took part In bringing Bill O’Reilly’s book Killing Kennedy to tv.

The mSM Is completing ignoring Roger Stone’s new book.That’s the mindset of conservative corporate Mainstream Media.Give all attention to anyone who pushes the oswald did it alone theory but ignore anything that says conspiracy.You got more coverage of the Davinci Code when it was a book than you are getting of the man who killed Kennedy.

That’s an excellent point about Stone’s new book. I’ve been looking for online reviews and the few I’ve found have all been on obscure websites, or just articles that briefly mention the book and the claims that Stone makes — and a lot of these articles are 5 or 6 months old. Now, I do not believe for a minute that Johnson knew anything about what was to happen in Dealey Plaza, for the simple reason that the crossfire that probably took place there made just being there a very dangerous place to be, and Johnson would have to have been either incredibly dumb or hopelessly crazy to expose himself to that kind of danger. Nonetheless, a man who was a rather important aide to several GOP presidents has just published a book in which he claims the 37th POTUS believed that the 36th POTUS was responsible for murdering the 35th POTUS. That’s news. Pretty big news. If it’s such a ridiculous idea, it should be easy enough to poke huge holes in it. Instead, they’re trying to kill it with silence. That hasn’t worked for 50 years, and I really don’t think it’s going to work now.

The evidence of a cover-up are overwhelming. The remaining files held by the National Archives must be released as the pressure from the public will continue to escalate as the 50th anniversaries of MLK and RFK approach.

I will add that if Oswald WAS a subject of curiosity or interest to the CIA, who casually monitored him without taking him seriously as a potential threat to National Security or the POTUS, I doubt very much that they would need to lock up files to this day to protect dead CIA personnel who might have been careless or negligent.

Frankly, there might be no negligence, but only if Oswald had bombed an FBI office.

AFAIK, there was no advance threat to assassinate the President associated with Oswald.

Dan, I assume you and Ed Lopez had to sign very restrictive confidentiality agreements with CIA to review their files on which your HSCA reports were based. From what you learned, and what went into your reports, can you both now speak freely without any reservation or limitations whatsoever? Have all your HSCA reports been released in un-redacted form (or if not, can you reconstruct any that were redacted or destroyed by CIA)? Or is CIA still to this day preventing you and Ed from disclosing certain details which you know for a fact would further advance the case for conspiracy?

No one has said that I cannot talk. I did not talk before the Joannides revelations. With that reservation, I have considered the agreement to have been breached by the CIA and am willing to talk. As I have said, no one has challenged my right to do so or sought to shut me down, or even threatened me, with the secrecy agreement.

That is most encouraging to hear, and I applaud your persistence in chasing down the facts behind the CIA’s extremely cynical insertion of their Joannides “filter” into the HSCA’s operations. Please keep everyone updated!The truth will out; fraud unravels all.